program deployment

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:01:17 -0800, Michele Simionato wrote:

> king kikapu wrote:
>> > > Are they embarassed by their code?
>>
>> hehehe...no, just worried about stealing their ideas...
> 
> I believe that shipping just the bytecode is a pretty effective way to
> stop 99% of programmers from
> reading your code. Yes, in theory they could decompile it, but in
> practice, programmers are lazy.

99% of programmers won't read the code if you ship the source.

> Look, I am so lazy that usually I don't read the source code, even if
> it is there in plain!

Exactly.



-- 
Steven.